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Drive to rehabilitate New York City fossil fuel peaker plant sites with battery storage

April 22, 2022
New York Power Authority has started a process of adapting fossil fuel peaker plant sites to host battery storage which could replace them. 
Rendering of how another AGL battery storage facility, at Torrens Island in South Australia, will look when completed. Construction began in November 2021 with Wärtsilä providing BESS technology. Image: AGL.

Australian utility AGL’s 2GWh battery project at coal power plant site gets approval

March 21, 2022
Australia’s biggest utility company looks set to be in ownership of the country’s biggest battery storage facility.
Inauguration of Ukraine's first grid-scale BESS in 2021. Ukraine joined ENTSO-E as an Observer Member in April 2022. Image: DTEK.

Only energy storage can make Europe ‘truly energy independent’

March 21, 2022
The European Commission’s plan to lower dependency on Russian gas imports needs to focus on pairing renewable energy with energy storage.
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Sungrow lands 64MWh battery project at gas plant in Israel

March 11, 2022
Sungrow will supply a 16MW/64MWh battery energy storage system to a customer in Israel.
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UK’s Gore Street makes first investment into German battery storage

March 8, 2022
Gore Street has completed the acquisition of a 90% stake in a 28MWh operational energy storage asset in Cremzow, Germany.
Alcemi's project could supercede London Gateway, a BESS project with planning approvals in place for up to 900MWh capacity by gas trading company Intergen. Image: InterGen.

Capacity Market contracts awarded to more than 2GW of battery storage in UK and Italy

February 25, 2022
The award of contracts to 1GW of battery storage was the “biggest news” to emerge from the latest round of Capacity Market auctions held in the UK.
Battery adoption is following the path laid out by solar, Guidehouse said. Image: Solarwatt.

Guidehouse: Residential batteries’ market share to equal gensets by 2030

February 22, 2022
Guidehouse Insights says that the annual power capacity deployments of battery-based residential energy storage systems (RESS) are expected to grow at a CAGR of 21.3% from 2021 to 2030 globally.
Illustrative rendering of RWE Renewables' Hickory Park solar-plus-storage project, which is being equipped with battery storage from Wärtsilä and is in Georgia Power's service area. Image: Wärtsilä.

Georgia Power asks for approval to own and operate 1GW of battery storage in IRP

February 1, 2022
Georgia Power has filed its 2022 integrated resource plan (IRP), highlighting the decreasing economic viability of it coal and seeking to add resources including renewables, gas and battery storage.   
Large-scale electrolyser manufactured by UK company ITM Power. Image: ITM Power via Twitter.

Green hydrogen investments gain traction as promising UK energy solution

February 1, 2022
Solar Media Market Research analyst Mollie McCorkindale offers insights into the UK’s green hydrogen sector.
The first BESS in Australia to deliver grid-forming capabilities, Hitachi Energy's 30MW/8MWh project in Dalrymple, South Australia. Image: Hitachi Energy.

Australia’s Northern Territory taking ‘huge step’ towards 50% renewables with Hitachi Energy BESS

December 14, 2021
Hitachi Energy has won a tender to supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Northern Territory, Australia. 

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